Innovation Pharmaceuticals Inc (IPIX)

[To infinity and beyond!]

So there it was: the carnival man and the crowd both had something in common. Both were stuck endlessly waiting. The crowd knew that if there were no PR from IP then the day would bring nothing.

Another wasted day. Others moved forward, but not Brilacidin.

The IP man too was becoming desperate. He had said a lot of pretty words to these people and had nothing to show for it, nothing, and he knew that people would explode at some point.

And what about him? When he was on the phone with the RBL what was there to say?

"But, but- you promised me prepublication in September" he said to the RBL, "and now I look like a liar. When you are the real liar. What do you expect me to do? Keep stringing them along? Keep printing more shares? The company will collapse. Those people will riot. I never shoulda given out the Wakefield address. They would be better off milling around in Beverly. This awful . I need data! I need papers! I need grant info!

"Don't you care about me and my company? Why give me those p values and nothing more? Why keep testing when everybody already knows you decided on the proper dosing months ago? Why?

"Can't you see? Either we start the trial or we miss the boat. Either prepublish now or IP and I perish."

It was a moment of real anguish. It was mystifying. If the RBL said B looked good- and they had said so- then why not get on with it?